as you. heard one year ago today it's going to earthquakes drug british politics is the u.k. to fight it to leave the e.u. we look at how it's off the shelves and made prime minister to read them a little more week and then strong and stable. but you get much from the end almost. as a shrine of the national i'm a little bit of a dash that's not good he added as. the battle against deisel is raging in the syrian city of russia though some accuse the us of having unrealistic plans for after the city's liberation. message is not secured by government the german government is given permission to read encrypted

it wants out messages on suspects phones off the parliament approved a new surveillance plan. this dry riverbed is infamous being. drug out this is where they come to feed their addiction. actually looks at how the growing opium production poisons locals in afghanistan and spreads far from its borders all across the world. hello and good morning to you it's eight am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me nicky arran. what has been exactly one year since the u.k. voted to leave the european union the actual divorce talks have only just got

underway the referendum result created a political earthquake whose aftershocks are still being felt today we want our borders back we want our country. to go she should leave to begin on the new prime minister. pass on my thanks to his mom for their rigs i suppose. but if the school woman breaks it means the global recession is not a plan and. we called it doesn't have a clue to irony like you. know what the community left behind. thanks.

for the road to briggs it has been fraught with difficulty with the british prime minister gambling and losing her parliamentary majority over the issue artie's polly looks at britain's rocky path ahead. it was a very changed the course of history the forty eight percent who voted to stay were outraged although the others they were delighted the same has risen. to become a national bank holiday we will call it a. night of firearms may have been jumping the gun his so-called independence day is still a distant prospect the referendum result killed the political career of david cameron and allowed home secretary to resume aid to step up to the plate in the run up to the vote she had been a quiet remain but the desire to lead post brags that britain forced her

to reconsider her position. rex's bricks it means bricks it rex it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of it a year down the line that sounds like something from an alternate universe considering that to reason made called an election in order to strengthen her hand in the braggs it talks but ended up free falling in the polls and losing her parliamentary majority her atrocious result meant that politically her weakened government limped into negotiations with brussels earlier this week and bear in mind these talks were never going to be a walk in the park charm created. what. can be concluded quickly. threats against a question that's been issued by european politicians commission was trying to

bully the british people arguments over whether the u.k. would pave the e.u.'s one hundred billion bragg's it bill guaranteeing the rights of e.u. citizen. in the u.k. and who would get custody of gibraltar what thorny issues but there is aroused took a back seat when britain was hit by a wave of terror for terror attacks in the space of just three months to be precise and many britons held to resume a direct plea responsible because she'd been head of the home office for six years before becoming prime minister. and with all the security and political chaos few people even notice that earlier this week brings it negotiations officially kicked off but not in the way that london would have hoped the british government already been accused of caving in to brussels over the braggs its schedule and

opinion polls now show that if the country got to vote again it would reject leaving the u. so just like two reason may the plan for braggs it went from strong and stable so weak and wobbly within the space of just one. while british politicians are bickering go broke so that some of the e.u. counterparts giving up hope that the divorce won't actually ever happen. some of my british friends have asked me. direct it could be reversed you may say. i'm a dreamer but i'm not still breaks it is not a walk in suppose i am an angle file page corrections for every angle if your governor decides to organize a brick city i will be pretty tough on the net surely it will never be the same it will never be outside the union better than inside some in britain still have that

illusion which is a waste of time. and that is the issue of bragg's it remains open to reason may have been trying hard to get it however not everything went as she expected negotiations have started in very unstable time for u.k. politics with people turning away from teresa mayes desire for hard work that. i will move a motion in the house of commons calling for a general election to be held on the eighth of june to reason may want to do strengthen her hand embrace of negotiations with european leaders she needed a mandate for her standing in the divorce from the e.u. breaks it wrecks it for tourism a breaks it means giving up access to the e.u. single market and customs union taking full control of u.k. borders and new compromise on the free movement of people but instead of a mandate to reason he got a hung parliament criticism of her breaks that position no deal for britain is

better than a deal or no deal would be a very very bad for now will britain needs to work ounce a new breakthrough plan which is not easy but the divided parliament the democratic unionist party which may hopes to form a majority with opposes a hard break sit well the u.k. position leaves more questions than answers some fear the negotiations which have already started will bring little progress so we wait for second breaks that referendum not likely even labor are resigned to this break of labor except respects the result we're afraid it won't be bluffing will come leaving. the conditions of the divorce agreements and now even more uncertain than ever and things you should go from the normal messy to fix. the u.s. led coalition leading the anti isolette fence over the syrian city of rock is quote

bombing everyone that's what locals have told r.t. his reps leave video agency that's why the coalition's insistence that it takes every civilian casualty seriously the grim situation on the ground suggests otherwise. but i knew that if this was what they are you had the guts of much to lead and you meant it the most i don't want to. assure you that actually i'm a little made of a dash dash well it's not as nesmith has met but you have on your little niche that actually you know but isn't it inevitable and the dome that has you had little that and then she would have modeled on him had little. or nothing when it hasn't leninism with. the. little blue. digit didn't she.

kill us led coalition doesn't deny using phosphorus which we just heard mentioned in its operations it's an extremely toxic substance than dave bombs from being used as a weapon the coalition says it only uses phosphorus in primitive ways during battle for example to create a smoke screen however human rights watch has voiced concerns saying the substance poses a high risk to civilians the leading force fighting islamic state on the ground is the kurds who are being armed by the americans however washington support to the kurdish fighters if it were to take this long term ally turkey can have more pain reports on how the u.s. has tried to get around this problem. turkey was furious when it found out that the united states their longtime ally and nato partners was going into rock without them. we do not need terrorist organizations like the p y d n y

p g in the rock operation let us work together to wipe out. america the coalition and turkey can join hands and turn rocket into a graveyard for. as the united states is aligned with two bitter enemies in syria the turkish government and the kurdish fighters it's got a tricky bit of maneuvering to do secretary of defense mattis says that the united states will eventually take back the weapons it's now supplying to the kurds after the defeat of isis and this is turning into no small matter at this point the united states to shipping in heavy machine guns mortars other small arms and even some armored vehicles it's totaling over one hundred million dollars worth of war toys a large portion of which are going to the kurds want to sell finish some five hundred u.s. military personnel will have the task of collecting it all in an area that's almost the size of pennsylvania maybe they'll knock on doors and say hey you know those

weapons we let you yeah you're finished with them right and who knows what answer they might get don't think that they would but this i mean the people here or my thought but command believe that they could be a member as you or turkey because you know if. there is you leave for a movie because that sort of be the be forced to give you some statements that make their acute look the united states has promised to monitor the area and send out a monthly report that will include photographs this sounds like a great idea as the usa has already lost track of billions of dollars worth of weapons they sent to iraq and some of those weapons have ended up in the hands of terrorists there i think mattis made that promise in his letter which presumably was gone but it still knowing very well that it probably would not be believed and very well would not be carried out but he made it trying to implicate the turks the

u.s. is supplying the weapons for the the u.s. as a whole and. goals which seems to be to break off a part of syria to allow the u.s. to dominate a separate part of syria basically they want to go ahead. syria. and in violation of syrian stubborn integrity a country is torn apart by civil war with different factions vying for power as civilians flee in chaos the pentagon has a brilliant idea send in more weapons just so long as they promise to give them back up and r.t. new york. seventies parliament has approved a nor allowing the country secret services to monitor messaging platforms like what that critics say the plan infringes federal liberty all of a report from. german parliament has adopted this law that would allow what's up messages or any other messaging service that using encrypt ssion to be loved those

messages that the sent to be read by the authorities what they do is they intercepted before it sent from one device to another where the encryption takes place. now this is a move that it's been referred to by the interior minister here in germany. is essential when it comes to the fight against terror we've also heard similar things coming from the. european union summit that's ongoing in brussels at the moment from the e.u. council president donald he said that authorities need access to this type of information if they're to try and stop future terrorist attacks. have also agreed on the need to cooperate closely with the online industry. we are calling on social media companies to do whatever is necessary to prevent the spread of terrorists were to go on the internet and practice this means developing clear tools to detect

and three move such materials automatically but we have heard this in the past if we look back to the united kingdom and the recent horrific terrorist attacks that took place in in manchester and in london we heard from. home secretary rhodes in the u.k. from prime minister to reason may saying they needed access to this information if they were to try in foil potential future attacks we want companies to develop tools to identify and remove harmful materials automatically i want to see them report this file contents to the or storage is and block the users who spread it there should be no place for terrorists to hide we need to make sure that organizations like whatsapp and there are plenty of others like that don't provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other we need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted whatsapp but critics of this move well many what we're seeing here in

germany is the green party in particular mounting a resistance to this they want to see held up in the constitutional court for as long as possible they say that it gives far too much power to those that hold the keys to allow them the potential for abuses. we spoke to internet freedom campaign who thinks the new legislation is a worrying development. core of this is is placing surveillance what's being described as surveillance software on devices now that that's one way of putting it but also essentially this is state tacking by any other name that's what's being proposed here and particularly interesting coming from germany which is actually been traditionally rather more liberal when it comes to issues around digital rights i think germany's been very aware of its history particularly with

east germany and the and the starsky certainly we need to be looking at security but what's worrying is the political response i mean i've characterized it as the kind of a kneejerk blame the internet response i mean i'm talking to you here from from greater manchester and we're just recovering from a particularly horrific attack but actually it's not the data that's been the problem we know that from the actual analysis before it's the analysis that's lacking with the information we have it's also what we do with it this is the problem and really basic things here in the united kingdom in terms of policing that's what we need to be looking at i think of our security policy is becoming increasingly wrongheaded in a war in the way that also the politicians seem to be want to be selling something to the public into times when of course we're concerned but what also ultimately is not the right approach. the poppy fields of afghanistan are giving rise to

increasing global opium production story and more coming up after this break stay with us. with the islamic state perceived to be on the defensive in syria many of the parties in this proxy war are eyeing the next stage of this conflict as

a result russia in the u.s. . is washington strategic interest in syria and. hello welcome back almost thirty million people around the world are suffering from drug addiction that's according to an annual u.n. report opioids unnamed is the most harmful drug type the document says that the moc to increasing global opium production is primarily due to rising poppy you in afghanistan. reports from kabul. ten years ago it was a problem five years ago it was a catastrophe now it is

a global epidemic the war did this most people's addiction comes from the fighting the conflict ninety percent of the world's heroin originates in afghanistan only a fraction of that amount is used domestically but the effects a devastating the pit of despair right in the middle of the afghan capital this dry riverbed is actually infamous for being a haunt of drug addicts this is where they come to feed their addiction the impoverished the homeless the desperate and the hopeless actually many more in the shade under the bridge where wrong but we then not get out the car much less go down that we would be attacked many of these people have unfortunately lost all touch with reality. we spent only minutes there yet in just that

short time we filmed this. an addict picks up a rock and assaults a body god escorting medics locals say it's getting worse and worse. this footage was filmed for us by a former drug addict who used to be a regular here he too was eventually assaulted and forced to flee every day it is getting worse not better i run into rehab centers one for men and one for women many of the women are mothers with children i wants treated a four year old addict sad but far away you might think not so most of the heroin you'll find in canada for example. from afghanistan the war and lawlessness here a killing people as far away as the americas it's not only the of one problem the

of one government that is unable to fight. narcotics but it's also the international community that is actually failing miserably to fight the products or the act in production their counter measures in order to find. drugs were clearly ineffective afghan opioids trafficked everywhere by a well oiled smuggling routes north to russia and europe east to asia west to the middle east africa and the americas view industry of afghanistan is killing tens of thousands worldwide every year this war is being felt in every corner of the world i've seen afghans general police generals with my own eyes that they were colluding in the south with drug smugglers so it is

a business of the syrians in the ins dollars that that is that reaches to the pockets of the taliban but also to corrupt afghan officials the millions of afghans there's not much of a choice work is scarce the crops are risky and less profitable heroin can both kill and feed when you go there in the uk in season you see schools empty and you see the universities even in where afghans are leaving schools in the worst for fifteen to twenty days to work in the fields and find employment one in ten afghans is directly involved in the opium industry now consider the families children that they feed. and the sheer size of the problem becomes evident where do you even begin since the nato invasion it has exploded this year's

opium harvest could well be the largest yet where george bush tried to at least limit it under obama drug control programs in afghanistan were cut by ninety percent it's politics the ministers the politicians authorities want poppy cultivation to continue if there americans wanted to they could stop it in a day but they don't get the unofficial reason is that if coalition forces started eradicating poppy fields angry farmers would flock to the taliban we doesn't make much sense given that washington also says that the taliban profits most from poppy cultivation regardless one thing is clear for now america intends to do nothing about it more i guess the of from kabul afghanistan. in fact even the u.s.

will recognize that not all have gone according to plan in afghanistan what went wrong here is just a few examples. we're not winning in afghanistan right now. pentagon wasted as much as twenty million dollars over the past decade get this by uniforms for the afghan army with the woodland camouflage pattern too bad they didn't conceal the troops forest cover only two percent of afghanistan. got free look like you're on a cruise to shall see thank you. can a guy page six million dollars to mail a tire you can go to because the a bomb in color now the pentagon doesn't even know where they go so all that might have been neat.

justification for twenty million dollars of the afghans are were when my auditors asked for documentation of we were basically told quote unquote we don't have the records we just spend the money. coming up next the last international policy king with larry king signs up saudi arabia's new crown prince look at the bottle of a trumps health care bill that. about

your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last turn. to us we all knew it would. i tell you i'm sorry suddenly i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never again like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one quite different to a speech because there were no other takers. the same that mainstream media has met its maker.

saudi arabia promotes a new crown prince how could it affect the united states we'll take a look on this edition of. the politicking i mean holmes in for larry king this week saudi arabia's king solomon appointed his son mohamed bin solomon as crown prince replacing his nephew

who had been first in line to the throne what does this mean for the middle east and also for us saudi relations let's get an assessment from joel rubin he served as deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the obama administration and is president of washington strategy group a global government affairs advisory firm joel joins me from our nation's capital welcome to all thank you great to be with you amy so let me ask you about this apparently king leapfrogged over the crown prince and put his son in place in next in the line of succession is this something that we should consider just sort of a blip internal saudi politics or is this an earthquake that could lead to real tension and conflict in saudi arabia well it is a significant shift and its timing is fascinating because right now is engaged in a variety of conflicts in multiple fronts right now.